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A dazzling play of colors highlights Southern California’s long lost clam. Photo Credit: Jeff Goddard

Rare ‘fossil’ clam discovered alive

This is a view of Coalcliff in New South Wales, Australia, where researchers discovered evidence that Earth's largest extinction may have extinguished plant life nearly 400,000 years before marine animal species disappeared. Credit: Christopher Fielding

Earth’s largest extinction event likely took plants first

The Kawhia giant penguin Kairuku waewaeroa. Image credit: Simone Giovanardi. Permission for use of the image by media is granted by the artist, with credit.

Giant Waikato penguin: School kids discover new species

pillow basalts from undersea volcanic eruptions,

Which came first: Complex life or high atmospheric oxygen?

tarsometatarsus

“World’s Largest Bird” Ancient bird bones redate human activity in Madagascar...

Although turtles belong to the reptiles, their skulls differs markedly from those of other members of this group. Credit: I. Werneburg

Shell puzzle: An additional piece added to the evolution of turtles

Ampyx priscus in linear formation (Moroccan Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale). Credit: Jean Vannier, Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon: Terre, Planètes, Environnement (CNRS / ENS de Lyon / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

Fossils show lining up is primal urge

Peregocetus

Ancient, four-legged whale with otter-like features found along the coast of...

foraminifera

Evolution imposes ‘speed limit’ on recovery after mass extinctions

Paleohistological transverse sections of select elements of (A) large- and (B) medium-bodied individuals of the Eutaw ornithomimosaurs, and (C) relative body-size of the Eutaw ornithomimosaurs within known ornithomimosaur taxa through a geological time. Credit: Tsogtbaatar et al., CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Ostrich-like dinosaurs from Mississippi are among the world’s largest at over...

A new study led by Yale University confirms a long-held theory about the last great mass extinction event in history and how it affected Earth's oceans. The findings may also answer questions about how marine life eventually recovered. Credit: Michael Henehan & Pincelli Hull

Mystery solved: Ocean acidity in the last mass extinction

Saltriovenator zanellai

The oldest large-sized predatory dinosaur comes from the Italian Alps

Origin of human genus may have occurred by chance

An artist's reconstruction of 'Anomalocaris' briggsi swimming within the twilight zone. Credit: Katrina Kenny

Incredible vision in ancient marine creatures drove an evolutionary arms race

An artist's impression of a New Zealand burrowing bat, Mystacina robusta, that went extinct last century.

Giant extinct burrowing bat discovered in New Zealand

Thylacoleo carnifex

Climate change the likely killer of Australian marsupial lion

A lab-grown crystal of a synthetic form of the rare earth mineral, monazite, shows extensive damage to one face after exposure to bio-leaching compound generated by Gluconobacter oxydans. Credit: Credit: Brian Balta/Provided

Bacteria may be key to sustainably extracting earth elements for tech

Skull fossils of amphibian. Credit: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Skull of 340 million year old animal digitally recreated, revealing secrets...

The best-preserved fossil of the group includes the skull, forelimbs, part of a backbone and a partial hind limb of a small, juvenile frog now known as Electrorana limoae.

Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests

The Gogo fish fossil where the 380-million-year-old, 3D preserved heart was discovered by researchers. Pictured at the WA Museum. Credit: Yasmine Phillips, Curtin University

380-million-year-old heart discovered

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